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The Argument from Early Development (1)

2024· book-chapter· en· W4401107558 on OpenAlexafffund
Stephen Laurence, Eric Margolis

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicChild and Animal Learning Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersUniversity of British Columbia
KeywordsArgument (complex analysis)Development (topology)EpistemologyPhilosophyComputer scienceMathematicsMedicineMathematical analysis

Abstract

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Abstract This chapter presents the first of our seven arguments for concept nativism—the argument from early development. Although this argument is often taken to be the quintessential argument for concept nativism, it is also frequently misunderstood. This chapter aims to clarify the logic of the argument and how it contributes to the overall case for our version of concept nativism. We do this by considering a selection of case studies, including the representation of faces and numerical quantity. This chapter focuses on how the argument from early development works in cases of representational abilities that are present at birth. While it may seem obvious that psychological traits that are present at birth should be taken to be innate, the link between being innate and being present at birth isn’t so simple. We explain why and how exactly the argument should be understood in light of these important complications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.032

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.014
Scholarly communication0.0030.005
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.253
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2024
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